Ok, so i was wonderin about coke and mentos inflation. I tried it about...an hour ago, still no inflation results so far, I had 1 pack of mentos and a can of pepsi max (does pepsi max work?) anyways no expanding tummy as of yet.
A few questions i would like answering:
-how much of each should i consume?
-does pepsi max work as a substitute for diet coke?
-do I chew the mentos?
-which do I consume first?
thanks in advance.
but i have seen videos of it on youtube? how can they do it then?
I don't think it has that effect.
However InflatableSteve's Video that was grand lolz.
They covered this on Mythbusters. Doesn't work. Even if it did, you'd just end up belching/vomiting it all out.
I do it regularly. I pack, and 1-2 cans mountain dew. Shake and inflate.
It works fine, the coke fizzes because of the cracks in the mentos, not the chemical makeup. Just it's structure. I vaguely remember that episode. Gotta do it fast, though.
Course, it could be just the soda inflating me. I don't burp much, so I hold it in anyway.
haha thanks, i shall try that.
I think the cracks in the mentos will disappear during consumption. You can't swallow them whole and the saliva is going to soften and dissolve the irregularities. I've tried it, unsuccessfully.
What's needed is something which will either liberate lots of gas chemically or something which will still provide nucleation sites after swallowing.
Up until now, i've tried these things:
* Carbonated water and mentos (can't use diet coke because aspartame makes me pass out) doesn't work any better than fizzy water on its own for me. Non-diet cola doesn't work at all because of the sugar.
* Just drinking fizzy water was fairly OK but made me cold to the extent of uncontrollable shivering.
* Citric acid and bicarbonate of soda should release lots of carbon dioxide. It worked, but even quite small quantities seem to start messing up my internal environment and i got cramps and tingling. It could easily have got quite serious, i think. Using tartaric acid might work better. I only managed about 2 litres of gas like this.
* Fizzy water and gum tragacanth. This was a total disaster! The gum is similar to the stuff in mentos, gum Arabic, which releases gas from fizzy drinks even if added alone. Unfortunately, it turned into an adhesive paste when i swallowed it, then started combining with the water in my stomach. This led to the gum shooting up my nose and sticking there. I was snorting gum out of it for hours afterwards. The other thing that happened was that the gas came straight back up and made me belch huge clouds of powder. It was funny afterwards. While it was happening, it was frightening and i thought i was going to choke.
My next plan is to use powdered chalk and fizzy water. Chalk doesn't dissolve in water, so it should provide nucleation sites without getting soggy. It's not dangerous as it's used in toothpaste.
I'll get there in the end.
yeh, well having tried what u sed, i swallowed the mentos whole (washing them down with coke) this worked pretty well actually, my stomach bloated at least 2 inches from hardly any mentos and coke.
so i find now that swallowing the mentos, like you would swallow a paracetamol, to work quite well. if the chalk method works well, tell me please :)
I will, but i have to wait until i can get hold of some. The place i normally order it from has been most unreliable lately, hence the halt in the "research".
Glad it worked for you. I might be expecting too much.
haha at first i was like... wtf man? but then after an hour i realised my tummy had gone down, so it had risen, i just hadnt noticed alot lol.
Another trick I do is stuffing baking powder into large 1 gram empty medicine capsules. Can find them at "vitamin" stores. Swallow and drink water, enjoy. They are a pain in the ass to make, though. Scooping up powder and cramming it into them for an hour sucks :/
You want to be careful about that. Sodium bicarbonate can throw your acid-base balance way out and kill you.
I've had a couple of thoughts about the swallowing problem. You could use a dry mixture of two powders which generate carbon dioxide when they dissolve in water. Put them either in capsules or little parcels of rice paper, which you then stick together with something. Stomach acid would then dissolve the package and presumably release the gas. However, i think it's a case of using a relatively inert powder with something carbonated.
Concerning getting powder into capsules, you can get or make something for this. There's a plastic layer with holes in. You press it onto a heap of half-capsules of one side, press an identical one onto a heap of the other half of capsules, cover one layer in powder and place the other one precisely on top of it, capsules down. That way you can do maybe a hundred at once.
But i think nucleation sites are the way to go, not an actual chemical reaction.
You want to be careful about that. Sodium bicarbonate can throw your acid-base balance way out and kill you.I've had a couple of thoughts about the swallowing problem. You could use a dry mixture of two powders which generate carbon dioxide when they dissolve in water. Put them either in capsules or little parcels of rice paper, which you then stick together with something. Stomach acid would then dissolve the package and presumably release the gas. However, i think it's a case of using a relatively inert powder with something carbonated.
Concerning getting powder into capsules, you can get or make something for this. There's a plastic layer with holes in. You press it onto a heap of half-capsules of one side, press an identical one onto a heap of the other half of capsules, cover one layer in powder and place the other one precisely on top of it, capsules down. That way you can do maybe a hundred at once.
But i think nucleation sites are the way to go, not an actual chemical reaction.
The effect it has on your acid levels is minimal, as long as you don't over do it (which is true for most things).
To liberate five litres, i.e. stomach capacity, of carbon dioxide from bicarb, you need about a quarter of a mole of it, which is twenty-one grammes. When i inflate using pumps, Plavini and the like, i manage up to thirty litres equivalent at atmospheric pressure. If i'm using an acid too, for example tartaric or citric, the toxicity of bicarb, the acid and the compound resulting from the reaction are all important, as is the pH change of the internal environment. Ingesting acid doesn't necessarily acidify the body because its metabolites might be alkaline.
It's possible that the twitches and the tingling i got were psychosomatic, of course, but it seems to me that if i just use calcium carbonate and fizzy water the situation is a lot more controllable because i don't have to think about all the other stuff.
Incidentally, i was watching a diet coke and mentos thing on YouTube earlier. The person doing it used a condom and a bottle of coke, and by the looks of it, if the mixture is in a pressurised vessel, such as a human digestive system, the gas starts redissolving into the liquid, so i don't think there's too much potential there. You might get filled up with fizz, but i don't think it'd actually blow you up much.
I dunno, I've chewed up a mentos and dropped it in soda- still fizz's just fine.
It's true that most of the people that do it do indeed inflate from simply having that much soda in them, but if you can hold the gas down I don't think there's anything stopping you from inflating.
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I'm probably being pessimistic about it. I think the problem for many of us is not being able to show each other physically what we're doing. It makes it a rather impractical exercise, i think. I've always had to explore this entire fetish on my own, that is, without anyone physically present i can share it with, and that probably makes me dogmatic and inflexible.
Ok, so I was curious about this as well. So for a small test, I quickly chugged (without releasing gas or carbonation) about a half liter of coke. I then quickly swallowed whole 3 mint mentos, using a small ammount of water to chase them down quickly. Then I immediately chugged another half liter or so of coke. I could feel my belly expanding to the point of discomfort. much more than one liter could give me on its own. also, i had to lay down to hold in the gas. I'll try more next time.
Ok, so I was curious about this as well. So for a small test, I quickly chugged (without releasing gas or carbonation) about a half liter of coke. I then quickly swallowed whole 3 mint mentos, using a small ammount of water to chase them down quickly. Then I immediately chugged another half liter or so of coke. I did this all in less than a minute. I could feel my belly expanding to the point of discomfort. much more than one liter could give me on its own. also, i had to lay down to hold in the gas. I'll try more next time.
Ok, so I was curious about this as well. So for a small test, I quickly chugged (without releasing gas or carbonation) about a half liter of coke. I then quickly swallowed whole 3 mint mentos, using a small ammount of water to chase them down quickly. Then I immediately chugged another half liter or so of coke. I did this all in less than a minute. I could feel my belly expanding to the point of discomfort. much more than one liter could give me on its own. also, i had to lay down to hold in the gas. I'll try more next time.
It doesn't work as you get rid of the fizz when you swallow the coke.